AVEVA™ PI System™ Feedback Portal

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We created this site to hear your enhancement ideas, suggestions and feedback about AVEVA products and services. All of the feedback you share here is monitored and reviewed by the AVEVA product managers.

To start, take a look at the ideas in the list below and VOTE for your favorite ideas submitted by other users. POST your own idea if it hasn’t been suggested yet. Include COMMENTS and share relevant business case details that will help our product team get more information on the suggestion. Please note that your ideas and comments are visible to all other users.


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    Rename the PIFD database to PIAssetFrameworkDb

    Nobody knows what PIFD means. We've had customer personell create PIDF2, PIFD3, etc. when tasked to create new AF databases, and also requests to remove PIFD because ICT personell don't know what it is. I suggest renaming the SQL Server database ...
    Asle Frantzen over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 3 No status

    Improve "Force Creating SQL Database before PI AF Install"

    When doing a fresh installation of AF Server, and either the "Validate SQL Connection" option or other Software like PI Notifications, RTQP Engine are selected, the installation cannot be started when the AF SQL Database is not called "PIFD". As t...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

    Add warning message while changing analysis type

    Changing from Expression to Rollup by mistake will erase the Expression configuration in PI System Explorer. Add a warning message regarding this.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Expose the ExDesc of a PI Point on an AF Attribute.

    Expose the ExDesc of a PI Point on an AF Attribute. This would permit to retrieve additional metadata from PI Points that can be used in AF.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 1 No status

    Add the ability to display UOMs in different languages in the PI AF Client

    Automatically display UOMs in the PI AF client in the language of your choice i.e. not a conversion of units. For example, to change the display of UOMs to Russian instead of English, kg becomes кг, V becomes B.
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Use different Windows account for linked table authentication

    As a user, I want to have the option of entering a service account's Windows credentials when authenticating to a Table Connection in PI System Explorer. Currently, the Windows authentication mode only allows impersonation of the user running PI S...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    Validating AF Servers Match

    As a PI Admin in a highly regulated environment, I need to demonstrate that the AF Servers in my production and qualification environments are identical. OSIsoft does not recommend comparing PIFD databases directly, and there are small difference...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Server / Asset Framework (AF) 0 No status

    In the PI Vision install kit, replace the batch (.cmd) scripts with PowerShell (.ps1) scripts

    The PI Vision install kit contains the batch scripts "RunCommand.cmd" and "RunSetup.cmd", which should be replaced with PowerShell scripts for several reasons: PowerShell is easier to read and is a more powerful language than the batch language. B...
    Kenneth Barber over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / Installation & Upgrading 0 No status

    I created a number of PI ProcessBook displays that utilize VBA code.

    VBA coding or some form of coding should be supported in PI Vision. One use of VBA coding was necessary in PI ProcessBook because multiple PI AF contexts are not able to be selected for similar groupings of symbols on the same display. An example ...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / ProcessBook Migration 0 No status

    Processbook tab information in the Excel Analysis report for Pocessbook to PI Vision Migration Utility

    As an Admin looking at the Excel Migration report, I would like to see a column with the tabnames in Processbook and the items listed tabwise as it is in the online analysis report as it is difficult for large PIWs to identify which tab the displa...
    Guest over 3 years ago in AVEVA™ PI Vision™ / ProcessBook Migration 0 No status